MEDIA@LSE Electronic MSc Dissertation Series Compiled by Dr. Bart Cammaerts and Dr. Nick Anstead Why pay if it’s free? Streaming‚ downloading‚ and digital music consumption in the “iTunes era” Theodore Giletti‚ MSc in Media & Communications Other dissertations of the series are available online here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/mediaWorkingPapers/ Dissertation submitted to the Department of Media and Communications‚ London School of Economics and Political Science‚ August
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Piracy: The New Business Model Through the digitalization and advancement of network structures such as server-based‚ peer-to-peer (P2P)‚ and torrent file sharing on the Internet; it is now easier than ever to illegally copy a digital product. Producers and distributors of a digital product can easily make duplications of the original and distribute them either legally or illegally over the Internet. Furthermore‚ an individual can duplicate and distribute a digital product through personal devices
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“internet piracy” or‚ as pro-piracy supporters of open media call “file sharing.” Acts of pro-piracy as of late include a petition against recently proposed anti-piracy legislation such as SOPA and PIPA that has received over 7 million signatures according to the Washington Post on January 19th‚ 2012. This large petitioning body of citizens represents a larger consensus demanding if anything is to be done about the act of file sharing‚ then many of the citizens of the U.S. do not want to be held responsible
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age-old copyright policies. This paper explores the different avenues bands are taking to make a profit‚ the effects of digital music distribution on the industry‚ and proposes the question of whether record companies will win the war against file-sharing‚ use it to their advantage‚ or be left in the dust. Introduction In this new age of constant technological advancement - an era that may very well be looked back on as a ’digital renaissance’ of sorts - it seems that everything in our world
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6. How would the full implementation of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) affect the chosen sector in your country of study? Could you firm’s development be enhanced OR hurt by this development? In Barbados‚ the financial sector will be affected by the full implementation of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) by allowing legal and administrative restrictions by affecting the free flow of trade and labor. The main issue is really whether CSME will work for Barbados when
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Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) and the European Union (EU). A comparison of the two entities will be provided along with a closer look at trade and politics and its challenges. We will use secondary research to gather the information for the paper. This will include usage of the internet‚ journals‚ academic papers and text books. Background on Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) CSME is the acronym for Caribbean Single Market and Economy. It is an economic system which
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We have ConocoPhillips as our project firm of Knowledge Management. We learnt a lot about the importance of Knowledge sharing in today’s firms. The company continues to make tremendous progress toward its vision of creating a work place where employees continually deliver additional value through global collaboration and expertise sharing. At ConocoPhillips‚ support for sharing comes from the executive level and cascades downward and outward throughout the U.S.’s 6th largest global firm. The following
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Preface ……………………………………………………………….... Napster was one of the controversial online music file sharing company created by Shawn Fanning‚ a student of Northeastern University‚ Boston. The service and technology allowed users to share MP3 files with other logged in users of Napster via the internet. While it gained popularity for music sharing‚ it attracted the attention of the music industry accusing Napster for breaching plaintiff rights and copyright violations which
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to fill your iPod by about 5%. An average mp3 player contains at least $800 of illegal music. About 95% of all music that is downloaded is pirated. Most people think it is ok because someone had to originally buy a CD‚ so they think of it as just sharing. An average mp3 player contains at least $800 of illegal music. The Hip-Hop artist Drake’s single "The Motto" is the most illegally downloaded single in the States totaling 458‚038 downloads during a six month period. . This goes to show that people
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Critique- Structure and Text- A Sample | |Sentences 1-3 gives the structure | |In "In Defense of Piracy (Well‚ Some Piracy)"‚ Ruben concludes that it is all right to download popular singles as long|of original writer’s argument | |as one does not download entire albums. He reasons that this is an appropriate way of opposing the hype generated by |Introductory paragraph
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